Wildlife category: 1081 books
Horse Photography
The Dynamic Guide for Horse Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
Catching a horse at exactly the right moment, in precisely the right environment, is a challenge, but Horse Photography offers the answers. Walker covers technical details such as camera and lens selection, background and lighting, and the book offers more: Walker’s own perspective as a horsewoman....
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality color images produced by a series of today's professional photographers.
Alligators, Sharks & Panthers
Deadly Encounters With Florida's Top Predator-Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Alligators, Sharks & Panthers takes a hard look at the complex and often strained relationship between mankind and our fellow predators. Worldwide, over one hundred million sharks are killed annually while less than a dozen people are killed by sharks during that same time period. The American alligator...
Nature's Design
exploring the mysteries of the natural world
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
What's so special about grass? Why do cows have four stomachs? When will lions give their last roar? How do animals plan menus - and co-ordinate hunts? Why do bees dance? How many elephants are too many? This compelling book explores and finds answers to some of Nature's most intriguing mysteries....
The Gnu's World
Serengeti Wildebeest Ecology and Life History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
This is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominates the savanna ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa. It presents a synthesis of research conducted over a span of fifty years, mainly on the wildebeest in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti ecosystems, where eighty percent of the world’s...
Caribou and the North
A Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
"If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds.
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Elk
A Falcon Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Falcon Field Guides are full-color, visually appealing, easily packable guides for identifying animals and learning about nature.
Wolf Almanac, New and Revised
A Celebration Of Wolves And Their World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Wolf Almanac has become an acknowledged reference work on the evolution and history of wolves: their biology and physiology, behavior and sociology; and their influence in ancient culture and mythology. This newly revised edition contains the most recent information on the wolves of Yellowstone, as well as fully updated information on the status of wolves throughout the world.
Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Saving North America's Western Grasslands
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Prairie dogs and the grassland habitat in which they play a key ecological role have declined precipitously over the past two centuries. The currnumber of prairie dogs is believed to be less than 2 percof the number encountered by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s, and only a fraction of grassland...
by Daniel P Mannix
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Family enthusiasm for Daniel's back-yard zoo is wearing thin. When a great horned owl is captured and offered as a donation, Daniel's father replies (with more than a little mockery), "That's the last straw! All we have in this madhouse now is fourteen skunks, four raccoons, a dozen opossums,...
Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This latest edition of the Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland has been fully revised, updated and restructured, bringing it in line with the latest thinking in taxonomy. Moths are illustrated in their natural resting postures, and there are also paintings of different forms, underwings...
Yellowstone Bison
Conserving an American Icon in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Yellowstone Bison: Conserving an American Icon in Modern Society examines the history of bison conservation and management in the United States, compiles the latest scientific information about Yellowstone bison, and discusses both the opportunities for and challenges to plains bison conservation within...
The Lady and the Panda
The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains....
Photographic Guide to the Birds of India
And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutanh, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & the Maldives
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Periplus is proud to present the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent. This ebook offers over 800 species and distinct sub-species and contains over 1,000 full-color photographs. Each species has a distribution map. Many of the photographs in this magnificent...